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The Bell Buoy is a poem by Rudyard Kipling. It was first published with illustrations in Saturday Review Christmas Supplement 1896 and then published in McClure’s Magazine in February 1897 as The Bell-Buoy with illustrations by Oliver Herford.Some changes to the wording occurred sometime between the edition in McClure’s and when it was collected in Rudyard Kipling’s verse: inclusive edition 1885-1918 (1919) as The Bell Buoy.